t.v. office do food surprising meetings and new adventures stories of love and love last hour russians teach foreigners to celebrate their biggest holiday of the year for moscow st petersburg by train over the new year there may be miracles. russia stars the recovery process as a twenty year option a strong meteoroid last at least one hundred people injured thousands of windows shattered and wreaks havoc in the country's nuclear. also this hour the delay in chuck hagel saw a new u.s. defense secretary confirmation which met an unprecedented republican opposition is seen as a push for a shuffling his ante hawkish. and tired of being watched and t.c.c. to be activists in germany team up and take their fight against public surveillance into their own hands by destroying as many street cameras as possible.

you saw in russia under around the world this is us he was me. hello and welcome to the program. more than twelve hundred people injured and tens of millions of dollars worth of damage that's how russia's urals entering its first day of recovery from a devastating michelle wyatt explosion this can office at the epicenter and brings us the details. thankfully the night passed quietly and without any incidents in chile i've instance there were fears that more meteors were going to hit the area nothing of the kind happened but the consequences of friday's meteor are still quite a handful and the main challenge for now is to repair the damage especially all the

broken windows in the home since we are in the year olds it's not exactly summer here and overnight temperatures did drop away below zero although authorities said that they've already managed to restore me fear around one third of the damage but it's not only about shattered glass a lots of old buildings were damaged as well like this factory there behind me where parts of the wall and roof just collapsed which is remarkable since we're around one hundred kilometers which is sort of sixty miles away from where the meteor fell on friday the explosion was so powerful nasa says it was equal to around twenty nukes dropped on hiroshima thankfully these explosions caused by the media were not accompanied by lethal radioactivity for more what happened here on friday here's this report it wasn't a bird in the plane or superman but something much wouter right faster and many times of war terrifying because big bright like him shiny across the sky you know

blinding brighter than the sun and it was around nine am when the skies were suddenly lit up by a media or flying over she had been breaking into three parts and leaving a striking trail of smoke before vanishing just minutes later the city and the surrounding areas were the literally rocked by a series of massive explosion. and. i immediately called one of my teammates who lives in my building and i you know i couldn't get through to him by phone in work so i was a little bit scared at the point so powerful it damaged buildings and shattered windows all across the city of dallas the bottom of your family i was told that a plane crashed right into a building then we were told that a wall has been partly disloyal and metal structures inside of a band by the blast wave it was a very scary. many were able to film the unearthly tsunami on

a leader flooding the web with footage as rumors spread of what it might have been a stricken airplane a satellite that fell out of orbit even the beginning of the end of the world an r.t. documentary crew that was working in the area suddenly found themselves at the center of events that put up that we saw a huge tail in the sky like from an airplane and then there was a bright fire and an explosion but the feeling was like there are. we thought a military jets may have crashed or that it was some manmade disaster it was a relief to find very sad he's a natural phenomena anyway except over twelve hundred people were injured including over two hundred children mostly from pieces of shattered glass not one of the girls ran out to take pictures yes. and she was thrown in by the wave that came after the the flash and then we. my ears got blocked and the whole room get got filled with dust just like like

a fog it's estimated the media as we need to varied from ten to forty tons and its speed of around twenty miles per second it gave it a huge amount of energy and made it very difficult to detect in advance that there are telescopes and networks operated by nasa in the u.s. and what's cosmos and russia and the european space agency others that are out there trying to detect and track asteroids but honestly there's a lot of there's hundreds of thousands and their biggest focus is on the really large ones ones that are hundreds of meters in diameter or kilometers in diameter that could potentially you know do two oss what happened to the dinosaurs thankfully no one was killed this time and luckily the media didn't hit any industrial facilities including several nuclear sites located in the region i must say all of this really looks like a scene from a science for a movie but it's really happened and there's another room. i know that no matter how advanced technology gets nowadays when it comes to nature often we can only

watch helplessly and hope for the best you've got is going off she did and central russia. lawrence maxwell krauss from the school of earth and space exploration says this wasn't like typically a precious event. meteors and asteroids are commenting and then come from the outer part of our solar system perturbations from the planet jupiter and other planets there's a huge. store of of comets asteroids and out outside the orbits of jupiter and outside in fact the outer solar system some of them periodically get disturbed by the gravity of the inner planets and get sent in word some of them are big balls of ice and become comets others are big balls of rock and the impact on mars and the earth and the moon and. what's fascinating is actually you could if you can collect some of this material some of it is primordial if we actually detect it and we can we can get it right after it falls we can actually measure

material that hasn't been processed since the solar system formed four and have billion years ago so for scientists it's a fascinating event and i'm happy that people weren't killed by it but if some of that material can be recovered it'll be incredibly interesting and important for scientists and it got some amazing photos from here all day exploding space walk as well as vivid examples of how powerful it was on the dot com so i do have to live through that as well as updates footage and more comments from ex-pats. more than a week of debates brainstorming and policy revision all will now be needed following an unprecedented vote which saw president obama's nominee for u.s. defense secretary failing to get enough support from the republicans or the results

not a complete defeat for chuck hagel the delay may give his opponents more time to further spoil his chances and many in the us believe this as what it was supposed to happen to a candidate who's not probe or enough he's going to check how has the details. those who blocked the vote on chuck hagel nomination this thursday know very well that he will eventually be confirmed as defense secretary there are enough votes in the senate to confirm him but the stalling of the vote together with the humiliating treatment that the senators gave chuck hagel two weeks ago at his confirmation hearing this whole process is seen as a message all by itself those lawmakers showed that they could question anyone who would allow themselves to dissent from washington's core foreign policy beliefs chuck hagel remarks at the confirmation hearing disappointed even his supporters during the hearing which to many seemed like an includes ition mr haygood had to backtrack on many of the statements he had made before including that war with iran

should not be an option including his criticism of israel's actions and some other foreign policy views that he had expressed as a senator so throughout that long and exhausting hearing mr haygood kept apologizing for much of the previous statements he had taken from previous positions he had taken and he bent backwards to show how quote unquote mainstream his views are in the senator's case kept accusing him of not being again quote unquote mainstream enough to get the job chuck hagel swore to defend basically all of washington's foreign policy orthodoxies his confirmation process has been humiliating in many ways than it demonstrated the state of u.s. foreign policy of policy basically intolerant of an alternative vision alternative claude having said all that the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel of course knowing the position chuck hagel had taken before was also seen as a message president obama had said previously that there is too much of your talk going on and maybe by nominating chuck hagel he wanted to play down because too many people here in washington are too eager to talk war just during the

confirmation hearing the word war was mentioned one hundred twenty times the word iran one hundred eight times by comparison of ghana's than the war that the u.s. is fighting right now just twenty six mentions of course those are just words but they may very well show how eager many many in washington are to discuss new wars without even having finished the old ones. and paul craig roberts assistant secretary of the u.s. treasury under president reagan things it's chuck hagel is bold he's on some global plays as a landing him in trouble with the republican. she has. made a mistake some years ago when he said that he was an american senator not an israeli senator and this instant come up because in the in the last presidential election in the united states are in the israeli prime minister.

support it. was a potent move the peace process for the. heated president of the united states and a very demeaning way. and so obama now is answering back to the israeli prime minister by appointing a u.s. senator who did a very very rare thing and asserted his independence. of the israeli government. the u.s. library of congress is working hard and filing away every tweet ever sent every way in a huge archive. they're doing a lot of other stuff that they should be doing like killing people across the world but you know there's only so much we can do and i think it's a kind of low on the priority but it's still a point that they should stop here in the. south coming up later lori hafen is just steps out of the streets of new york to find out what people think about the government holding on to their online messages. that people in the biz

celebrate the anniversary of the uprising against gadhafi while the government fears a new one thousands of armed militias lined the streets of major cities despite activists assuring all rallies will remain peaceful. and an accused group is a seraph seen a major rally in berlin on saturday against what it sees as a massive expansion of c.c.t.v. cameras in germany the movements opposition against the ever encroaching big brother turned from words to action long ago where they are becoming notorious for trash in street cameras all across the country on of our takes a look at whether the groups message makes them different from ordinary vandals. if you ever get the feeling that someone is watching you whilst walking through the streets of the german capital there may be more to it than paranoia. the amount of sensitivity civilians in germany is on the rise and it's not as bad yet as in other

countries for example in the u.k. there were millions of cameras installed but still the number is rising and that's worrying us. that increase has seen some berliners take quite drastic action and fight back against what they see as the invasion of their privacy the target for their fight the cameras themselves the phenomenon has even produced an online game cam over the rules are simple film yourself destroying c.c.t.v. cameras posted online and point to rewarded for the amount of cameras smashed as well as bonus points for creativity although many privacy campaign is an easy this more militants approach we're not a particular big fan of while and even if it's ones against things that's a form of protest we do not support of the ovi support the message. is contest will culminate in a protest ahead of the european police congress in berlin law enforcers fear the

movement and its methods will only rise in popularity and public damage i don't think it's it's a group that is committing these crimes i think these are some people from the left wing political corner they want others to compete with them to destroy cameras and what about allegations that the rise in c.c.t.v. coverage was turning berlin into an all well state no i don't think so i think we have a strict law that the only personal belongings or the personal. ground you own can be protected by a camera you're not allowed to point the camera at a public street and so i don't think there's. big brother watching everybody or germany does. some very strict laws when it comes to personal image rights even global giants like google of how to censor the faces of anyone snapped on this

street view service the advancements of things like smartphones the amount of pictures taken and uploaded to the web every day is sure to make it even more difficult for those who prefer to keep their anonymity the authorities deny that big brother is watching you in berlin however as the amount of c.c.t.v. in the city goes up it becomes increasingly difficult not to get caught on camera peter all over r t. so being caught on camera is precisely what happened to a group of security guards a man suspected of having nancy links alkies drug abusing thousands of foreign workers across germany details on our website about it all for you. and also that america is known as the land of the free but online you have the story of one man who doesn't seem to cherish his freedom as much as others up to here want a bind just to get sent back to change.

a tense yet mostly peaceful celebration has begun only there as the country marks two years then the start of the uprising that ousted monica duffy massive rallies were held in two major cities tripoli and benghazi with flag waving crowds marching through the streets a bomb exploded outside of benghazi police station causing no injuries authorities said it was the work of criminals not political activists protests that are planning demos against the current regime though they claim they will be peaceful there is fear violence may break out thousands of police and militia are in the streets and there have been reports of nato forces arriving in tripoli two years after the initial uprising big government is still struggling to keep groups under control as well as protest moves in the east and south of the country and they are succeeding says political analyst to dr abraham a louche. so what we have seen over the last two years in libya is that this integration of

a new form of sun throw control paving the way for the fragmentation of the country into three states at the same time those around lawlessness in the country there's an outgrowth of fundamentalism of the chrome on the outside that has spilled over and somali as we have seen over the last couple of months a little bit. more than two months and at the same time we have this but sort of. strife breaking out between the front militias and the country so yes a lot has changed but not for the better how they feel melissa angeles called who killed for me to stay aside in his last fight but one of his former colleagues going to counter the mob in the past life goes opinion on the story coming out. and attempts to study global economic troubles are being made at the g twenty

gathering of financial had paid off but the looming currency war was weighing heavy on that line they sent her shopping. well. science technology innovation all the lives developments around russia we've got the future covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. of the.

it is. to. this is the welcome bach now there's been enough to delve into how to deal with the prospect of currency wars but as yet the g twenty finance leaders that's still to agree on beijing which is dragging the walls markets into a turmoil the gathering is taking place in the russian capital as the country gears up for borders on it later this year. has been following the talks in moscow. a lot of conflicting statements have been said about this talk of the impending looming

currency war which has led some folks some market watchers to be quite confused as to what we'll actually see coming out of this g. twenty talks here in moscow now at the center of the whole controversy and crisis is japan it's doing its aggressive monetary and fiscal policies and has seen a weakening of the and so what this has resulted in is essentially a clash between the countries very little consensus we did hear from a russian finance minister. who has said that this is certainly an important issue that of currencies that is very much on the table but at the very same time we've seen other world leaders come up and say that you know what currency wars aren't really a threat they're trying to calm down the market to some have even questioned whether japan's actions constitute as a manipulation of the currency basically when a country is in the dire fiscal situation such as of course as we all know many countries are today like japan for instance is one option that

a country house is to devalue its currency so making something like this a twenty dollar bill worth less you can do that by a variety of means for example printing cash because why would you want to do that when your currency is worth less if your manufactured goods are cheaper on the market and that gives you a temporary boost in the economy which could be pretty critical in tough times like this now what we've actually seen the fear here is that when a country does that your trading partner strike back they say hey we're going to lower the value of our currency and that sets off a currency war such as the one that we saw in the one nine hundred thirty s. which has led to the great depression now japan insists that it is simply trying to stimulate as kwame it's not doing anything to prompt a full scale currency war of course no country here wants to see that but the reason that we're seeing so much disagreement and so little consensus among the countries is that you know what for example the united states policy isn't all different that. the fed in the u.s. has been printing money like crazy so these developed countries don't really see

any incentive in i was leading japan in trying to really squeeze down this currency manipulation issue because they don't want to mess around with their economies essentially so that is really the crux of the issue. so why some currency will toxics work for some of those that's discussed by national groups mox kinds and bit more stuff food program later this hour but he's a pretty everybody is doing it venezuela devalued recently by over thirty percent in the u.k. the pound pound sterling has fallen by over ten percent against international currencies and yet their export market is up barely point one percent so it hasn't worked for them they showed up to a global currency war with their fear paper and it hasn't done anything for them you know if you show up to a gunfight with a knife chances are getting i've got stripped shot dead in the street like

a dog show up to a currency war with paper like mervyn king or ben bernanke here these other central bank clowns and you'll also be eviscerated gunned down in the street by the gold vigilantes and that's a good thing. autopsy results have shown christopher dorner the former los angeles police officer who killed four including two of his colleagues committed suicide during a final shootout with sheriff's deputies the cabin he was barricaded in called fine during the fight and daughter shot himself journalist blumenthal believes the officials never intended to come and live in the first place. but your transmissions that i was listening to you clearly indicate that they planned to burn him alive or as they said. deploy the burner there's the audio transmissions of the police scanners also show that they carefully manage the fire to ensure that it completely consumed the cabin use it during the basement cracking emotionally

and not professionally and where help it on revenge in this was clearly shown in not just the police scanner transmissions but in an open transmission that was broadcast on channel nine during the standoff in which tubing deputies were overheard screaming let's burn this about for they're in the n.f.l. referring to dorner the suspect. there are now close to two hundred billion tweets stalled in databases at the library of congress in the us the government says it wants to keep us not chop of life in the country's finance or online messages but some citizens are concerned it's just one more invasion of privacy no health arrest takes to the streets of new york to find out what people that think about the project.

the library of congress announced that it's storing our tweet is this just another method of surveillance or is it a way of archiving the times this week let's talk about that did you know that our government is starting to store all of our tweets they're archiving them in the library of congress not surprised you're not surprised by that now why not they're quite everything are you ok with that no absolutely not. so do we do about it you know i don't know because they're doing a lot of other stuff that they should be doing like killing people across the world but you know there's only so much we can do it i think so our tweets are kind of low on the priority but it's still important they should stop there and yeah it's just another way that they can surveil us right yeah but i think how would you feel about your government storing all those tweets that scares me the so because i mean like you could tweak things i mean i've talked to a for about three years now and i kind of member watch would back them if they can find out and just kind of see what it was that's quite scary have you ever tweeted

something that you might not want stored for all time usually a tweet recipes and food related things so i'd love it if a store. i mean those are really surprised me and know they try to facebook and they track everything you do a lot i mean they have the right show and they stay along as the invention was five it is doing this for your protection do you believe that you trust them to use it not as a way to surveil you or invade your privacy you know i believe they're i mean what more can they do i mean if you put stuff out there that you don't want to be out there that you shouldn't do with where you should just keep your private stuff so you should influence with and all over the place whether or not you think the government storing our tweets is an invasion of privacy and the bottom line is you better think twice before you tweet because you never know who might be listening.

and in a few minutes its currency was in the latest edition of the kinds of reports today . some countries want oil but that's kid stuff who needs oil when you could secure the world's largest supply of truck so-to located exclusively in sweden and meeting sweden for absolutely no logical reason is a possible you say well supreme commander of the swedish armed forces general sphere guru and son must have watched red dawn too many times because he thinks the russians are a common general durance and declared that if invaded by russia sweden wouldn't be able to last a week against the onslaught therefore sweden must immediately join nato he said

that currently it is not quite possible to invade sweden but due to the two thousand and eight war with georgia it is possible for russia to somehow push through established european borders bring their forces up to sweden's gates putting the generals country in danger but guess what according to your own council of the european union georgia started the war so by that logic if the two thousand and one with georgia is the example of the future then don't kill russian peacekeeping troops and you'll have nothing to worry about but general goran so also made the point that president putin is rearming the russian army hinting at a threat of being heavily armed to defend yourself is a bad scary thing then joining up with nato seems to be pretty hypocritical if the people of sweden want to join nato well that is their choice but they shouldn't be tricked into having their taxpayers pay for their sons to die in afghanistan based on totally bogus arguments that make no sense but that's just my opinion.

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